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by mounirmeza

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Hi,
I have a new Compaq PC with 10GO of HD, and configuring with one partition C:.
After installing win95 and Norton utilities, I check my PC and found 2 drive C: and D: with same size 10GO each ans same content.
Why I have two drives and how can I restore my orinal config with one drive C: and delete D:

Thanks for your help.
Mounir

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by steven chiu

Are you able to read write data on the disk the same way you did before? If you can, this might be just a normal situation.

Check both your Windows drive property and in Norton configuration to see whether any sort of drive compression is turnedon.
I suspect this comes from Norton. Windows drive compression will create a host drive and it only hold a big file which is presented as your compressed drives. As you say both drives (appears to) have same contents, it could be just a pretty presentation of Norton.

To the last resort, I guess you would have a Compaq Quick restore CD. Make sure you backup all you need before even putting that in your CD drive.

by mounirmeza

Thanks for your reply.
Exacly, I can read/write data as before.
But, can compression be activated automaticly without any intervention as never request any compression.

by dc guy

Didn't Windows 95 have a maximum addressible drive size? I seem to recall that all hard drives of any size were partitioned back then. I didn't reformat my hard drive when I upgraded from 95 to 98 and it still has two partitions.

by thechas

Windows 95 was built on the FAT16 file system.

Therefore, it is limited to 2GB per drive / partition.

Except, for version 2.5 / C:
The final OEM version of W95 had both FAT32 and USB support.

If you are using any version except 2.5, you need to start over, and re-partition the hard drive.

Primary DOS partition 2GB
Extended DOS partition, the remainder of the drive.

Then, create 4 2GB logical drives in the extended partition.

Further, if this is an older PC, it may not have native recognition of large hard drives.

If the drive was setup using a drive / BIOS overlay program, you need to follow a special procedure to boot from a floppy. Otherwise, the BIOS can recognize the drive in strange ways.

Chas

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